Games like Chess
If Chess is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chess Kingdom, Disco and Foxyball — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Chess: A professional chess simulator. It offers games against advanced AI, analyses of world-class chess games, and games played by chess grandmasters. You can solve and create chess puzzles.
Players who liked Chess also play
Steam players who put hours into Chess also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Chess Kingdom
WHY THIS
Top pick for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
Chess for every kind of player. Whether you're learning the rules or hunting a Legend rank, there's a place for you in the kingdom.
Disco
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Chess.
Grab a disc, read the wind, and sink the pins across over 50 procedurally-built courses and daily ones added. Disco is laid-back disc golf game with a real swing in your hands, custom discs, drifting wildlife, and different game modes. Play solo, pass-and-play, or online.
Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
Chess! One of the world’s most popular games, has just got even better! Pure Chess Grandmaster Edition is a stunning celebration of the greatest strategy game of all time.
EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 27
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Ranked #5 for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
Run the league one decision at a time. EA SPORTS™ Madden NFL 27, powered by the all-new Persona Engine.
Madden NFL 22
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
Madden NFL 22 is where gameday happens. All-new features in Franchise include staff management, an enhanced scenario engine, and weekly strategy. Share avatar progress and player class between Face of The Franchise and The Yard with unified progression.
3D Chess
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
A unique chess trip with exciting instant duels awaits you - test your mettle on the chessboard. Checkmate your opponent with only a few moves and solve challenging chess puzzles in amazing 3D worlds.
3D Math - Ultra
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Ranked #8 for Chess fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Chess.
Mathematic Ultra - is both simple and complex challenges!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Chess.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chess.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
AdVenture Capitalist
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Chess.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Chess.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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Frequently asked about Chess
- Does Chess have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Chess supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Chess?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Chess are Chess Kingdom, Disco, Foxyball.
- Who developed Chess?
- Chess was developed by Chess Master.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Chess.
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